1Cademy - بخش ۹۱ - عقد بیست و هشتم در بذل و جود که اول آن اعطای درهم و دینار است و آخر آن بذل وجود / Section 91 - The Twenty-Eighth Knot on Generosity and Bounty, the Beginning of Which is the Bestowal of Dirhams and Dinars, and the End of Which is the Bestowal of Ones Existence

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بخش ۹۱ - عقد بیست و هشتم در بذل و جود که اول آن اعطای درهم و دینار است و آخر آن بذل وجود / Section 91 - The Twenty-Eighth Knot on Generosity and Bounty, the Beginning of Which is the Bestowal of Dirhams and Dinars, and the End of Which is the Bestowal of One's Existence

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ای درم گرد تو بسیار شده
دین تو در سر دینار شده

گنج جود است کف تو مپسند
از هر انگشت بر آنجا دو سه بند

دست بسته بود از مرد درشت
بهر آزار درم جویان مشت

مشت پرز که نماید مدخل
مشت پر کرده بود بر سایل

کف بی جود وی از خوی نه خوب
بر گدایان ز قفا سیلی کوب

پنجه خود به مساحت بگشای
بر درم جود در راحت بگشای

غنچه سان خرده چه پیچی به ورق
خرج کن همچو گل آن را به طبق

موجب قبض بود جمع درم
مایه بسط و طرب بذل و کرم

بین کفت را که به بیشی و کمی
قبض و بسط از درم و بی درمی

باش چون حقه که هست از زر و مال
خواه پر خواه تهی بر یک حال

نه چو همیان که زر و بی زریش
می دهد فربهی و لاغریش

عقد همیان که پر از سیم و زر است
بر میان تو چو زرین کمر است

بر میان همچو کمر مپسند آن
جز پی خدمت حاجتمندان

گنج از امساک بود خاک به سر
کان ز امساک شود زیر و زبر

هر چه داری ز در و گوهر ناب
ریز بر خاک و برآ خوش چو سحاب

بار فقر ار فکنی از یک تن
بار منت منهش بر گردن

کوهی از فقر اگر آید پیش
کاهی از منت ازان باشد بیش

چون عطابخش خدا آمد و بس
به که دانا ننهد منت کس

در کرم حیله گری بیش نیی
جود را رهگذری بیش نیی

چیست چندین عظموت و جبروت
پشت لب بر زدن و باد بروت

کیسه بیشتر از کان که شنید
کاسه گرمتر از آش که دید

هر زر و مال که بخشیده دهی
باید از وجه پسندیده دهی

به ستم سیم ستانی ز کسان
تا کشی خوان کرم بهر خسان

نیست لایقتر ازین هیچ کرم
کز کسان بازکشی دست ستم

قحبه کز کسب زنا بخشد زر
بخل صد بار ز جودش بهتر

جود او دود شرارت شرر است
بخل او نخل سعادت ثمر است

مالت از دزد به تاراج افتد
به که نی در کف محتاج افتد

ابر باید که به صحرا بارد
زان چه حاصل که به دریا بارد

می دهد سبزه و گل صحرا را
می کند آبله رو دریا را

دل فاسق که به زر شاد کنی
مجلس فسق وی آباد کنی

به می و نقل کنی یاوریش
مطرب و شاهد و شمع آوریش

ظلم زور ز زر یافته هست
ظلم را تیغ زراندود به دست

از زر و سیم بر او جود مکن
ظلم را تیغ زر اندود مکن

هر چه بخشی که بگیری دگری
آن نه جود است که بیع است و شری

تخم تلبیس بود دانه به دام
نیست بر گرسنه مرغان انعام

صید گر دانه که می افشاند
می کند حیله که جان بستاند

همتی ورز درین کاخ منیر
همچو خورشید ببخش و مپذیر

فیض خور نیست به هر شیب و فراز
بهر نفعی که به وی گردد باز

بر عطا صیت و ثنایی مطلب
وز عطاخواه جزایی مطلب

ور فتد زو دو صدت گنج به چنگ
باز ده ورچه کشد کار به جنگ

English translation

O you, around whom dirhams have accumulated in abundance, Your religion has been sacrificed for the sake of the dinar. Your palm is the treasury of generosity; do not allow Two or three bonds on every finger of yours. A closed hand belongs to a harsh man; His fist is clenched only to afflict those seeking dirhams. His fist, filled with lint, appears to be an entry; But his closed fist is struck against the beggar. His palm, devoid of generosity due to his bad nature, Strikes a slap on the backs of the beggars from behind. Open wide the span of your fingers; Open the door of comfort through the generosity of dirhams. Why do you fold your small coins in petals like a bud? Spend them on a platter like a blooming rose. Amassing dirhams causes constriction; Surrender and generosity are the sources of expansion and mirth. Look at your palm: in abundance or shortage, It experiences constriction and expansion because of having or lacking dirhams. Be like a small jewelry casket: whether it is full of gold and wealth Or empty, it remains in the same state. Do not be like a purse, whose having or lacking of gold Causes it to become fat or lean. The knot of the purse, filled with silver and gold, Is around your waist like a golden belt. Do not accept it around your waist like a belt Unless it is for the service of the needy. The treasure, because of hoarding, becomes covered in dust; Even the mine is overturned due to hoarding. Whatever you possess of pearls and pure gems, Rain them down upon the earth, and rise up joyfully like a cloud. If you lift the burden of poverty from someone, Do not place the burden of obligation upon their neck. If a mountain of poverty were to stand before you, A single straw of obligation-laying would be heavier than it. Since God alone is the Bestower of gifts, It is better that the wise person places no obligation on anyone. In generosity, you are nothing but an intermediary; You are nothing but a pathway for bounty. What is all this pride and majesty, Pouting of the lips and puffing of the mustache? Who has ever heard of a purse richer than the mine? Who has ever seen a bowl hotter than the soup? Whatever gold and wealth you bestow, You must give it from an approved source. To seize silver by force from people, Only to spread a table of generosity for the base ones? No generosity is more fitting than this: That you withdraw your hand of oppression from people. A prostitute who gives gold earned from adultery— Miserliness is a hundred times better than her generosity. Her generosity is the smoke of the spark of wickedness; Her miserliness would be a palm tree bearing the fruit of felicity. It is better that your wealth is plundered by a thief, Than to fall into the hands of the needy via such wicked means. The cloud must rain upon the desert; What benefit is there for it to rain upon the sea? It brings forth greenery and flowers to the desert, While it only makes the face of the sea blistered. If you gladden the heart of a sinner with gold, And make prosperous his gathering of vice, Assisting him with wine and sweets, Bringing him a musician, a beautiful companion, and a candle, This is oppression that has gained power from gold; It is giving a gold-plated sword into the hands of oppression. Do not bestow gold and silver upon him; Do not give a gold-plated sword to oppression. Whatever you bestow in order to receive another in return, That is not generosity; it is buying and selling. The seed in the trap is the seed of deceit; It is not a bounty bestowed upon hungry birds. When the hunter scatters grain, He schemes to take away their lives. Exert your high ambition in this luminous palace; Bestow like the sun, and accept nothing in return. The bounty of the sun on every high and low slope Is not for any benefit that might return to it. Do not seek fame or praise for your giving, And do not seek any recompense from the recipient. And if two hundred treasures fall into your hands because of it, Return them, even if the matter leads to war.

Updated 2026-07-19

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